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Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)Posted Jan 16, 2007 1:50 UTC (Tue) by sholdowa (guest, #34811)In reply to: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) by error27 Parent article: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)
Umm... not really. From wikipedia:
"Tivoization is the creation of a system that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but uses hardware to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware. Richard Stallman, creator of the copyleft GNU General Public License (GPL), coined the term and believes this practice denies users some of the freedom that the GPL was designed to protect.
The term came about in reference to TiVo's use of GPL software on TiVo brand digital video recorders (DVR). TiVo's software incorporates the Linux kernel and parts of GNU, both of which are licensed under the GPL Version 2 (GPL v.2). The GPL v.2 requires TiVo to release the associated source code for others to use and modify. One of the goals of this GPL requirement is to allow others to modify the software to better suit their purposes."
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Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jan 16, 2007 4:14 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] I guess it's a hacker vs cracker thing. Trust me, if you talk about things getting TiVOized everything in the real world thinks it's about time shifting media.
I don't know why people pick on TiVO when they could just set up a MythTV box. Probably it comes from a mix of laziness and jealousy.
Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jan 16, 2007 13:45 UTC (Tue) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] I personally use and love mythtv and would use nothing else, but it is still not an easy thing to set up for most people. Hopefully it will get there one day, but right now a Tivo is just a lot easier.
Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jan 16, 2007 19:45 UTC (Tue) by sholdowa (guest, #34811) [Link] I think RMS should have the last say, seeing as he invented the concept. TiVo is NOT just about a PVR, it is far more specifically about the way it 'uses' GPL
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